There is also another small bug: When the comment above a method starts with '/** ' (notice the space at the end) the getDocComments() function will return an empty string. When you remove the trailing space, all works fine.

And finally a small functionality request: please add the getDocComments() function to the reflectionProperty class, since the description of the var with the @var tag is also a well known functionality of packages like javadoc/phpdoc and it would come in handy if you cannot only get te description of methods, classes and functions but also the defined properties of the class.

Thnx
David

changed category to 'Zend engine 2 problem'

reproduction code:

<?php
class testReflection{
	var $CAPS;
	var $lower;

}
//throws an exception, while it should not
$x=new reflectionProperty('testReflection','CAPS');
//works as expected
$y=new reflectionProperty('testReflection','lower');

/* Same for when you reference an object, instead of giving the name of the class */
$test=new testReflection();
//throws an exception, while it should not
$x2=new reflectionProperty($test,'CAPS');
//works as expected
$y2=new reflectionProperty($test,'lower');
?>


Possible solution for the CAPS problem:

The properties hash table ce->properties_info probably keeps the property names in the origanal string format (didn't change 

it with tolower()). So the fix will probably be to remove the zend_str_tolower_copy (line 2729)

[zend_reflection_api.c]
2728	lcname = do_alloca(name_len + 1);
2729	zend_str_tolower_copy(lcname, name_str, name_len);
2730	if (zend_hash_find(&ce->properties_info, lcname, name_len + 1, (void **) &property_info) == FAILURE) {
2731		free_alloca(lcname);
2732		zend_throw_exception_ex(reflection_exception_ptr, 0 TSRMLS_CC, 
2733			"Property %s::$%s does not exist", ce->name, name_str);
2734		return;
2735	}

Also in RC3

This bug has been fixed in CVS.

Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change
will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at
http://snaps.php.net/.
 
Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.

BTW: The '/**' is another issue (which i also fixed). Please fill in separate bug reports for separate things in the future.

Thnx, I will post the small feature request in a sepperate 'bug report'.